"It is important not to trust people too much."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.“
-V. S. Naipaul
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"I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands."
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"Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
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"To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'"
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-Bob Kane
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-Lewis Thomas
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